Ontario Teens With Psychological Distress Raises Alarms

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Ontario teens with psychological distress have seen a rise over the years, ranging from moderate to severe distress symptoms.

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It may be surprising to hear what the reasons are, but a recent large scale study reveals that the primary reasons behind these conditions the young participants describing their current lives as anxiety-inducing, stress-filled and overwhelming.

What’s more alarming is that as the grade levels go up, so do the intensity of the problem. For instance, the study showed that Grade 12 students were four times more likely to report high stress levels and more than twice as likely to rate their mental health as poor or fair.

Far more disturbing is the likelihood that older teens were significantly likely to consider suicide and have not even considered trying to seek for help or intervention.

Dangerous transition scenario

This situation is now causing worry in society, especially adults who feat that youngsters may have a very rough start as they transition into adult life.

“Most of us consider the adolescent years the peak of your life – your life is ahead of you, the world is your oyster – but that seems not to be the case,” says Robert Mann, a head researcher on the survey conducted by the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. “Given that you are shaping the rest of your life in adolescence, it’s important for us to understand what the challenges teens are dealing with.”

Compelling evidence from a large scale study group

The scale of the study should not leave the findings gathering dust, as the mounting evidence of this problem may soon try to reach great proportions. The study was taken from the responses of 10,426 students from Grades 7 to 12 from 220 schools in Ontario.

Among the telling points was gender, where girls were more likely to report problems rather than boys. Aside from the fact that there have been an increase of this condition being reported by the youngsters, still, the number of those who contemplated on suicide remained relatively the same, just a little over 11 percent.

Among the many concerns raised that were identified as cause factors were the uncertainty of their future like student debt, job opportunities, overwhelming demands of social media and a deep sense of concern with the recent incidents of violence like terrorist and wanton attacks on people.

“We are creating generations of kids who think life has to be stress-free, We have not been teaching them how to solve the problems causing the stress,” says Stan Kutcher, a Dalhousie University psychiatrist.

He added that these youngsters should be given the right understanding and education about issues affective life, poor coping skills, clinical mental illness and social media or just about any concern that affects them.

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